Today's mantra in entertainment is “the consumer is king” whereas historically, that mantra was “content is king.” Consumers today are demanding any content, any time, any place, on any device, and in any format, creating a paramount shift for content providers. Different device types require different content types and data rates, thus massive amounts of transcoding, processing, and storage.
Add to that the moving, tracking, and storing of content as it goes through its life cycle and you'll see tremendous pressure on the IO systems, networking systems, storage systems, and CPUs. With multiple forms of distribution, from traditional TV, to video-on-demand, to the Internet, to YouTube, iPods, and cellphones, the need to manage these digital formats is dire.
This latest edition Innovating@Sun brings together host Hal Stern, vice president of global systems engineering and guests Bob Sokol, media architect in global sales and services, and Dave Cavena (photo), systems engineer in the studio and postproduction part of Sun's business. The trio discuss the latest innovation in the area of digital media with particular focus on:
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Links:
Show Transcript
Sun Media & Entertainment website
Archiving Movies in a Digital World
Open Media Commons
HANA
Anystream
Telestream
Agnostic Media
Java CAPS
Jeff Bonwick's profile
Guy Steele's profile
Posted at 09:32AM May 22, 2007 by Laura Ventura in Sun [permalink]
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